Infant Bacchanal
Piat Joseph Sauvage Flemish
Not on view
Sauvage’s name was synonymous with trompe l’oeil (fool the eye) paintings that imitated low relief ancient sculpture and became hugely popular for Neoclassical room decoration. The present painting is meant to imitate bronze. The subject is taken from a relief by the sculptor Clodion (1738–1814).
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